Well, If you live in London every small talk starts or ends about the weather. If you live in Moscow almost every chat with your friends early or later comes to commuting. So If I want to say few words about my one. I live in a Moscow's suburb. It seemed to me that it will be easy to get to Moscow when I bought my appartment. But I was wrong. Despite the fact that my town closest to the Moscow rich it very complicated problem. At first I live at thirty minute walk from the railway station. At second train departs from the station every hour and that is quite rarely. At third our high road is the most overload road in the region. So when I looked at the map I saw only 10 km to the Moscow and estimated it as 20 minute trip, but the reality is a litle bitter. Sometimes I spend an hour in jams only for to rich underground. In this case my whole path takes 2 hours to the one side.
But exceptions happen. Yersterday I lost only 1 hour on the road to my work. Very convinient thing is tailwind car. Somedays there is a queue of that cars in our busstop. So people are sitting down for 4 person in car and paying only the bu-sticket's price.